Occupational Safety And Health Specialist

Description

Leidos is a Fortune 500™ company aimed at embracing and solving some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Through science and technology, Leidos makes the world safer, healthier and more efficient.

Our Civil Group offers an array of exciting career opportunities for the best IT, energy, logistics and engineering professionals. The NISC program is seeking an Occupational Safety, and Health Specialist. This professional will provide support to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Environmental Occupational Safety and Health (EOSH) Program.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develops new occupational safety and health programs, policies, procedures, technical reports, briefing papers, and approaches to address broad, new compliance and certification problems, taking into consideration FAA policies, Federal laws, regulations, and industry standards.
• Conducts workplace environmental/safety inspections and develops abatement plans to control the identified hazards.
• Identifies and evaluates safety training needs in the areas identified above.
• May act as a point of contact to provide advice and guidance on the applications of policies and procedures. May be called upon to communicate FAA positions on policies and procedures internally and externally.
• Serves as subject matter expert in identifying and evaluating personal protective equipment needs (fall-protection, electrical, and hazardous materials).
• Performs complex technical hazard assessment assignments involving the evaluation and analysis of laboratory data to develop hazard control options for asbestos exposures, mold growth, drinking water exceedances, confined spaces, or other similar health hazards.
• Reviews project designs and identifies safety concerns regarding asbestos, fall protection, electrical safety, and other work hazards.
• Assignments frequently require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines.
• Develops scopes of work for contract resources required to implement specific aspects of EOSH program operations with overall authority and responsibility for compliance with federal, state and local Environmental and Occupational Safety and Health regulations.
• Oversees safety or occupational health program elements including fall protection, electrical safety, confined space and hazardous materials. Analyzes jobs, processes, products, or other systems to determine the risks to employees.

Basic Qualifications

• Strong writing, time-management, and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated aptitude for collaboration, teamwork, and risk management.
• Ability to effectively communicate in written and verbal form to individuals at different organizational levels.
• Ability to work independently within a fast-paced, large engineering organization.
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently with different schedules and requirements.
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S. and pass FAA security screening for positions of public trust. Public Trust requires US Citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health and Safety or a related field, such as Biology with 2 to 4 years of prior relevant experience. Or, a Master's degree in a similar field with at least 1 year of prior relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Associate Safety Professional (ASP).
• Board of Certified Safety Professionals with any of the following certifications:
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) certification.
• Construction Health and Safety Technician (CHST)
• Occupational Health and Safety Technologist (OHST).
• Prior Safety consulting experience for FAA or other Federal agencies.
• FAA Experience or Military Aviation background highly desired.

Leidos is growing! Connect with us on LinkedIn and Facebook.

We value and support the well-being and mobility of our employees with competitive benefit packages, complementary e-learning training, work-life flexibility, an exciting External Referral Program, and a diverse, inclusive and ethical work place. In fact, in 2020, Leidos was ranked as one of the “World's Most Ethical Companies” by the Ethisphere Institute for the third consecutive year.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $54,600.00 - $84,000.00 - $113,400.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.